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Mikey Garcia, Richard Commey Agree To Terms; Date Not Set
By Keith Idec

NEW YORK – Mikey Garcia will remain at lightweight for at least one more fight.

Promoter Lou DiBella confirmed to BoxingScene.com on Tuesday that he has reached an agreement for his fighter, Richard Commey, to challenge Garcia for the IBF lightweight title. A date for the mandated Garcia-Commey match hasn’t been set, nor is an agreement in place with the network that’ll televise it.

DiBella and Garcia’s representatives came to an agreement, first reported by ESPN.com, late Monday night. A purse bid, scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at the IBF’s headquarters in Springfield, New Jersey, thus was canceled.

Garcia-Commey could be scheduled for as soon as December if it is broadcast by FOX as part of Premier Boxing Champions’ new deal with that broadcast network. Showtime, which has aired each of Garcia’s past five fights, also could televise it.

Ghana’s Commey (27-2, 24 KOs) is the mandatory challenger for Garcia’s IBF 135-pound championship. The New York-based contender is 3-0 since losing back-to-back split decisions to Robert Easter Jr. and Denis Shafikov in 2016.

Commey’s close loss to Easter came in a 12-round fight for the then-vacant IBF lightweight title in September 2016. Commey, 31, scored an eighth-round knockdown during that bout, but lost on two of three scorecards in Reading, Pennsylvania (114-113, 112-115, 113-114).

Garcia defeated Easter (21-1, 14 KOs) by unanimous decision in a 12-rounder to win the IBF lightweight championship July 28 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The 30-year-old Garcia (39-0, 30 KOs), of Moreno Valley, California, also owns the WBC lightweight title.

After he beat Easter, the four-division champion ambitiously discussed jumping up two weight classes to challenge undefeated Errol Spence Jr. for the IBF welterweight title in his next fight. Stephen Espinoza, Showtime’s president for sports and event programming, told BoxingScene.com on Tuesday that Spence-Garcia remains a possibility for some time in 2019.

Promoter Bob Arum said recently that he wants to make a Garcia-Vasiliy Lomachenko bout for next year (https://www.boxingscene.com/arum-lomachenko-wants-mikey-garcia-fight-right-pedraza--131964). Arranging that lightweight title unification fight – clearly a more sensible bout for Garcia than facing the bigger, stronger Spence – would require Garcia to overcome Commey and Ukraine’s Lomachenko (11-1, 9 KOs), the WBA 135-pound champion, to top Puerto Rico’s Jose Pedraza (25-1, 12 KOs), who holds the WBO title, in their own title unification fight December 8 in The Theater at Madison Square Garden.
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https://www.boxingscene.com/wbc-grants-canelo-voluntary-defense-then-charlo-golovkin-winner--132401

WBC Grants Canelo Voluntary Defense, Then Charlo-Golovkin Winner
By Keith Idec

The WBC announced during its convention Wednesday in Kiev, Ukraine, that Canelo Alvarez can make a voluntary defense of its middleweight title in his next fight.

Mexico’s Alvarez is expected to make that defense against David Lemieux, a former IBF 160-pound champion. The WBC also voted that if Alvarez defeats Lemieux, he must face the winner of a mandated bout between former WBC champ Gennady Golovkin and Jermall Charlo, the WBC’s interim champion, in his following fight.

It is unlikely that the 36-year-old Golovkin would fight the unbeaten Charlo before boxing Alvarez a third time. If the WBC insisted on Charlo-Golovkin taking place prior to a third Alvarez-Golovkin fight, Alvarez simply could vacate the WBC middleweight title again and box Golovkin.

Alvarez defeated Golovkin by majority decision in their 12-round rematch September 15 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

A third bout against Alvarez (50-1-2, 34 KOs) would make much more financial sense for Golovkin than facing Charlo. Houston’s Charlo, 28, has waited patiently for a shot at Golovkin and now Alvarez, but he cannot force either fighter to box him.

Charlo (27-0, 21 KOs) won the WBC’s interim middleweight title by knocking out Hugo Centeno Jr. (26-2, 14 KOs, 1 NC) in the second round April 21 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Promoter Oscar De La Hoya has mentioned December 15 as a possible return date for the 28-year-old Alvarez to meet Montreal’s Lemieux (40-4, 34 KOs). That might be too soon for him to fight again, especially since he suffered a deep cut over his left eye during a brutal bout against Golovkin 2½ weeks ago, made more than $40 million for that high-profile, pay-per-view fight and would have to quickly return to training camp later this month for a December bout.

Alvarez’s return to the ring also has been complicated by HBO’s announcement last week that the premium cable network will no longer broadcast boxing in 2019. Alvarez has fought exclusively on HBO or HBO Pay-Per-View for the past three years.

Showtime, ESPN and DAZN are among the networks and streaming services that could work with Alvarez, the most proven active pay-per-view star in the sport.
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Espinoza: Golden Boy Knows Showtime 'Very Interested' In Canelo
By Keith Idec

NEW YORK – Stephen Espinoza has made an aggressive pitch to Canelo Alvarez’s team.

All Showtime’s president for sports and event programming can do now is wait for Alvarez, Oscar De La Hoya and Golden Boy Promotions president Eric Gomez to choose the Mexican superstar’s new broadcast partner in the United States. Alvarez is a television/streaming free agent now that HBO has announced the premium cable network will move away from broadcasting boxing by the end of this year.

Espinoza discussed Showtime’s interest in Alvarez before a press conference Tuesday to promote the Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury heavyweight title fight December 1 at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

“We’ve expressed interest, but they’re taking their time,” Espinoza told BoxingScene.com at Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. “We’ve made our interest known. But it’s not something we’re gonna be real up front about in the press. We’ve made our communication directly to Golden Boy and they know we’re very interested. And we obviously have a history with Canelo.

“There’s a range of free agents, and we think we are the most attractive platform in the sport. We have a proven track record in pay-per-view and we’ve got the deepest stable of current stars.”

Alvarez has worked with Showtime on several of his fights, including his majority-decision defeat to Floyd Mayweather Jr. five years ago.

Mayweather-Alvarez ranks No. 3 on the list of the most profitable pay-per-view boxing matches, behind only Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao and Mayweather-Conor McGregor. The Mayweather-Alvarez fight in September 2013 drew roughly 2.2 million buys and produced approximately $150 million in pay-per-view revenue.

Alvarez’s two subsequent bouts – a 10th-round TKO over Alfredo Angulo and a split-decision defeat of Erislandy Lara – also headlined Showtime Pay-Per-View events.

The 28-year-old Alvarez (50-1-2, 34 KOs) then signed an exclusive deal with HBO that began with his third-round knockout of James Kirkland in May 2015. He boxed in six pay-per-view fights and fought once live on HBO during the three-plus years of that deal.

Promoter Bob Arum also has expressed interest in Alvarez fighting either on ESPN or ESPN Pay-Per-View. Arum’s Top Rank Inc. has an exclusive content agreement with ESPN, which would require De La Hoya to work with Top Rank on Alvarez’s fights if he signed a deal with ESPN.

DAZN, the new streaming service with which British promoter Eddie Hearn has partnered, also has expressed interest in working with Alvarez.

Espinoza believes Showtime is the only company pursuing Alvarez’s services with the requisite record in producing successful pay-per-view events.

“We’ve got the proven track record in pay-per-view,” Espinoza said. “With HBO’s departure, we’re really the only party with a proven track record in pay-per-view. And the fights that we’ve been doing have been speaking for themselves.”
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Adrien broner vs Manny Pac, winner gets floyd?

I dont think AB deserves that look but it makes sense if it's TRUE that Pac jus signed to Al Haymen
 
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